The Man Who Changed Everything

Download or read book The Man Who Changed Everything written by Basil Mahon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.